F3 Knoxville

Category: Equalizer

Dealers Choice at the Equalizer

THE SCENE: not as humid.  fall is coming.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers x5, SSH x25, LBAC x10 both ways, Tempo Squats x15, Tempo Merkins x10

THA-THANG:
Deck of Cards — do 4 cards from the deck and then run to the other side of the loop (1/8 mile). Near the end we took our running a couple of different directions.

  • Hearts = merkins
  • Diamonds = pull-ups (if at playground) or burpees
  • Clubs = flutter kicks (4-count)
  • Spades = Squat Jumps

MARY:
Captain Thors

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

An encouragement to live by grace.  It’s so easy to fall into the performance trap — thinking that our acceptance with God is based on our performance.  On good days, we become proud and think God owes us.  On bad days, we get discouraged and condemned and think God will punish us.

Our acceptance with God is completely based on the righteous life, sacrificial death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  God now sees us though and in Christ.

“Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Heavy B-Ball

THE SCENE: Still hot, still humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Yep
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickersx7, Hairy Rockettes x15, LBAC fwd/bck x15, SSH x20, Tempo Squat x10, Tempo Merkin x10
THA-THANG:
Reverse Indian Run: Ran to the dock reverse Indian run style. Front man drops for five merkins then pops up to join the back of the line. Next HIM counts to five and does the same.

Suicide Ladder: In the parking lot adjacent to the dock, performed a suicide ladder of Mtn Climbers and American Hammers (both 4-count). Perform 5 mtn climbers in the top lot, run down the hill, perform 5 Am. Hammers, Crawl-Bear up the hill, rinse and repeat adding 5 reps each round until you complete the round of 25’s.

Mosey to the basketball court for a little game of Heavy B-Ball.

Heavy B-Ball: Performed some circuit training on the court with the following exercises.

  1. 20lbs Slam Ball – Ten shots at the basketball goal. All PAX move to the next exercise once ten shots were attempted. Each miss = 1 burpee during transition for the whole PAX. Each shot made = 1 merkin
  2. BBS
  3. 30lbs DB – Kettlebell Swings
  4. 60lbs Sandbag – Over the shoulder toss
  5. CMU – Overhead Press
  6. 30lbs Sandbag – Sandbag Slams
  7. 30lbs Ruck Plate – Curls
  8. Gas Pumpers
  9. Iron Mikes

We completed one full circuit of the above workout. Shooting the ball was harder than most PAX expected and we got plenty of burpees in.

Mosey back towards the Shovel Flag with the weights.

Completed one lap around the soccer field to cool-down.

MARY:
Doubtfire led some Imperial Walkers
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 HIMs with 1 FNG. Welcome Training Wheels! This guy already has the HIM part of F3 down to a science, glad to have him on board.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

At our church’s family retreat this weekend one of the speakers discussed the differences in the needs of men and women, specifically as they relate to marriage. The top 5 emotional needs for men and women are very different and when we don’t take that into consideration in our marriages it is easy to neglect the needs of our spouses. Below are the top needs identified by the author of His Needs, Her Needs:

Become aware of each other’s needs and learn to meet them.

  • Men’s 5 most basic needs from his wife:
    • Sexual fulfillment
    • Recreational companionship
    • An attractive spouse
    • Domestic support
    • Admiration
  • Women’s 5 most basic needs from her husband:
    • Affection
    • Conversation
    • Openness and honesty
    • Financial security
    • Family commitment

MOLESKIN:
Thanks ToeBox and Doubtfire for joining me on the pre-run. It was great to hear Doubtfire talk about F3 Dad’s camp. I’m really looking forward to taking my little one here in a couple years.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None?

200th F3 Workout!

THE SCENE: 68 and awesome!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

A little of this and that to loosen up my old bones!

THA-THANG:

Run 1 mile & do pull-ups, pushups, and squats

Run 2nd mile & do more of the same

Run 3rd mile & did pushups, & calf raises

Ran another 3/4 of a mile

MARY:

Big Boi Sit-ups, FlutterKicks, Hello Dollies (What Up Girl?)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Just me there to celebrate my 200th F3 workout

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Honestly, I prayed and thought about life, my strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for improvement throughout the hour workout. I thought a lot about Mr. Rogers and his family. I prayed for all of the men in F3 and especially for those men and that aren’t a part of our group but really need to be. I hope they find F3 and it helps them become better men like it has many of us.

MOLESKIN:

I didn’t do my planned Q and thought I would save it for another day.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Root!

THE SCENE: Warm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER almost forgot it
WARM-O-RAMA: intro to Spread Eagle Merkins 
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the trail head.  Hit the trail with flashlights on a mosey, stopping to do 20 3-ct merkins. High knees when we hit the grass at Admiral park.

5 station loop. Stop at each cone and do (reg,wide,diamond and spread eagle merkins) qty of 20 on first lap, 10, 5. On each lap stop at pavalon for 10 pull-ups.

Take a lap with only pull-ups and finish with flutters to 30. Take another lap w/o exercises.

Mosey back doing imperial walkers thru grass then mosey Thru woods back to CC Park. Stopping for 20 tempo squats and some rocketts. Bernie once out of the woods from pole to pole and then snake around the trail back up to the splash pad for 20 dips, 10 inclines and 10 declines. Snake around to the AO.

MARY:
100 LBCs, circle of pain with 5 Merkins
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

8 in attendance

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Be careful to thank God what you ask for”  many times we are quick to ask God for  things that will help us or others, we tend to forget about going back and thanking God for his intervention. Let’s  make a greater effort to appreciate what God does for us and thank him for his many answered prayers.

 

 

MOLESKIN:
Don’t leave a Q in drafts or someone will stalk you. I found this message in my Q notes.

Tank, I’m watching you….always watching you! Waaa ha ha ha.

Im guessing it’s Woodshack or Doubtfire
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dad camp, dirt circuit, TTTP.

Can we do this without a GPS

THE SCENE:  drizzle in the air. Perfect temp
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH,  tempo Merkins, cherry pickers, Rockettes.
THA-THANG we started off with doing a couple of laps around the track and up the hill stopping at six  different locations to do 10 Merkins, 20 drydocks, and 30 squats. At each lap we stopped and did 10 pull-ups at the playground. After that, We did a lap and landed at the tennis court. Five stations including: Merkens, drydocks, squat jumps, BBS, plank jacks. Keep doing exercises until Americans have reached 20 and then rotate. Two rotations. After that, we just moseyed around the park and stopped occasionally to do some exercises including pull-ups, dips, Merkens, dry docks, and squats.

MARY:
Flutters x30
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 pax, good to see Cavalier slumming it at the Equalizer
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Be the same person you are at church and around F3 As you are with your old high school buddies. Change your environment, don’t adapt to your environment.
MOLESKIN:
We got to explore the equalizer today. Fun GPS designs
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